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Despite spending a huge amount of money in the last transfer window, Chelsea are well adrift of expectations. At near enough the halfway stage of the season, Frank Lampard's men sit eight points off the top, a gap that will become nine if you factor in a Manchester City win in their game in-hand.
They are six points behind third-placed Leicester. It is testament to the job Brendan Rodgers has done that we see the Foxes in this position and think little of it. Of course, they are recent Premier League champions, but they now feel like regular top-four contenders as opposed to one-off 5000/1 fairytale winners.
Both of these teams have the exact same goals for and against (33:21) but Leicester have been able to convert that into points on a more regular basis. Chelsea narrowly beat Fulham last time out but Scott Parker is right in saying that it could well have been a different result had his side kept eleven men on the pitch for the entire game.
Chelsea haven't travelled well in recent weeks and anything other than three points would have made the questions about Lampard's future grow louder. Prior to their trip to Craven Cottage, they had lost games at Arsenal, Everton and Wolves.
Odds correct at 1345 GMT (18/01/21)
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